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The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
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Look up, the world is wide. On land and
sea,
Onship or shore, there is no rust no rest;
A heart throbs outward from each human
breast
And moves it onward to its destiny.
What if its hidden doom must end in deathl
Why, meet it bravely with the honest
thought
OF no good deed undone, no ruin wrought
To kill the hope that s.othes a dying breath,
He who would scar from darkness into
light
And, like Icarus mount on waxen wings,
Will never reach and touch the golden
springs,
That open the ga'es that close upon the
nighs.
Who rises, lifting others up with him,
Is strong indeed. Within his call or reach
Are hands that aid ~him-hearts that help
him teach
What he has learned himself and taught to
them,
We build our thoughts like mountains to the
clouds.
The mystery of our being still uusolved,
Save that we k ow our lives are not
evolved
For the sole end Of filling empty shrouds
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Cooking Dinner at a city Bakery.

The commonest sight of carly Sunday
morning in the cheaper quarters of an
English city is the people carrying Their
dinners to the bakers to be cooked in
their ovens. When the last batch OF
bread is drawn the ovens are filled with
joints and poultry, which are delivered
at a modest price, piping hot for the
table. Years ago, in smaller commun.
tiles. the practice was observed here, but
never encountered it in New York until
last Sunday. 1t was on the east side, in
a populous tenement district, that
came on a procession of women, girls
and boys carrying all styles and sizes of
baking dishes into a bakery. The econ
omy of the practise is obvious. 1t saves
the building and the keeping of a fire
and the trouble of homework on what is
possibly the housewives one holiday of
the week. The baker told me he does a
Lrisk trade in dinner-cookiDg in hot
weather. When the mercury becomes
dispirited, and fires become a necessity
the business experiences a sensible dimin-
ution, but there is considerable of it 60
ing the year round.
The providing of ready cooked meals
is another growing trade. The cooked
meat shop is as notable a feature of Paris
as the bakery dinner is of England. 1t
has existed and thriven here for a long
while, principally by the patronage of
the French and German population. Lat
terly, however, it has taken a wider pop
ularity among the natives. One dealer
in cooked meat now runs several shops
in various parts of the city, and new men
in the business are constantly springing
up. Many people who live in flats rely on
these shops for the solid portions of their
meals, only cooking Vegetables or fancy
dishes at home. 1t does not save any
money directly, probably, but fancy it
is made to serve the purpose of dispen-
sing with a servant, and so is a definite
gain in the long run.-NeD York Meus.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Notion that Causes seastokness


Recent experiments touching the eff.
fects upon different persons of the up
ward and downward motion of elevators
present some curious results. A man of
161 pounds weight stands upon the plat
form OF a scale placed in an elevator
finds the balance indicating ia pounds
On the upward journey and 14S during
the descent, thus showing . difference
in his weight for the time being of 26
pounds, or about 16 per cent. In this
case the elevator was of ordinary speed,
and in proportion as the speed was in
creased or diminished the change OBJ
served a corresponding alteration, one
elevator moving 50 rapidly as to indicate
nearly 40 per cent. In this case we have
the secret of why SO many persons have
o sensation of seasickness in elevators.
especially after a recent meal. In q great
uptown store, in which the different
stories are devoted to separate branches
Of trade, the sped of the elevator is
regulated so as to save time, but so many
ladies are made seasie tx by the motion
they prefer the old mode of stair-climb-
ing.
Standing well forward or well aft on
the deck of a ship In a heavy seaway
gives the same lifting and falling sensa-
ton as that experienced in an elevator:
but the roll of the ship is absent, so that
it would seem as if seasickness resulted
more from the upward and downward
motion than the swaying of the deck
away from q horizontal position. tt will
be remembered that the experiment of
building passenger steamers with pendu-
lum cabins, whose decks remained hori-
zontal throughout the voyage, failed to
avert scasickness. All the motion was
overcome excepting in the direction OF
the perpendicular. That disease of the
sea must therefore be due to the aXer-
mating conditions Of the pressure of the
food in the stomach; and as the patient
RECEIVERS when the stomach has time to
adjust itself to the motion and becomes
proof against further attack, it is obvi-
that voyaging in q rapidly moving
elevator, in anticipation of a sea voyage,
would make told salts Of the most del
loa'e ladies before smhaFkiagI Al YaB
Refla
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
A SaaU that Cuts steel.

One of the most ingenious mechanical
devices recently introduced is a saw
without teeth, which will cut a steel
rail in two minutes. The saw in ques-
ton is u by an eighty-horse power
engine more power than is required to
run all the other machinery in the shops
is thirty eight inches in diameter, and
is three-eights of an inch thick at the
edge. The disk is made of Bessemer
steel, and runs at . very high rate of
speed. While in operation a band of
fire encircles the saw, the many sparks
flying from the revolving disk resemble
a display Of p~yrotechnics. To keep the
saw cool and prevent it from cracking, a
tank Of water is placel above the
machine. from which a small stream
runs down and drops on the saw while
in motion.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Go,nbEiso n, WASHINGTON.

A Washington letter to the Brooklyn
Eagle says: The great poker day in this
town, as presumably in many others, Is
| Sunday. There are few well known
resorts where the .tiger" can be seen in
allhis glory, as was the case in the old
days at Saratoga, butthere is an immense
amount of play in private. Up on Capt.
tol Hill some of the members have rooms
engaged by the month to which they in
vite their friends when the proceedings
| of the House become tedious, and there
the heaviest games are played. One
Western member, during the last session,
won $25, 600 in the little room which he
kept for pastime purposes. Old poker
players say that times are dull now, and
that nothing like the games are played
which use to characterize the days OF
Fernando Wood. No n thinks OF
playing anything but poker, and the best
players, as a rule, are from the West.
But it is in this as in everything else
the ''sharpers'' soon become known, and
experience no little difficulty in gather
ing in their victims. 1t is questionable
whether there is any other city in the
country where tie gambling spirit
is SO thoroughly predominant. From
Senators down to the colored messengers
in the Departments, clerks, counter
jumpers and hackmen-all have a touch
of the fever. The women are at it, too.
Out at Joy City, when the races are In
progress, the number of women who
make bets is greater than at Sheepshead
and at Brighton in their palmiest days.
The anti-pool selling crusade has not
yet been started, and, as a result, the
pool rooms, of which there are many,
flourish to an unusual extent. To
gambling in stocks, members of Congress
are very partial, and the telegraph oper-
ators up at the Capital are kept con-
tinually busy sending purchases over the
wires. Brother Talmage would have an
excellent field for conversion. He
might try it!
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

The entire military strength of the
British Empire, including India, but
emitting Canada, is rs, 900 men in
round numbers; this includes all avail
able soldier material; the regular army
consists of 1875, 600 infantry, 18, 900 cav
Ilry and 33, 600 artillery, 5000 engineers,
( 5000 transport troops, a total of 1913, 900
men. Russia has or army of 3, 733, 900
Infantry, 300, 600 cavalry and an artillery
Of s, t77S, guns and 81 days are required
to mobilize this immense military array.
Russia's annual expenditure for army
and navy is $3.50, 512, 500; that Of
Franco $16s, 65s, 915, that of Great
Britain $155, sos, 775: Germany $113,-
1913, 745, and Austria Hungary $67, 069,-
975. Should these tremendous forces Of
war clash in determined conflict, the re-
suit would bel havoc unprecedented in
history. But the very magnitude of the
preparations must have a deterrent
effect
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
FgoareFs ifa VI

yiolets and roses, the New York Mail
and Express sayschaye been for a long
while the most popular and fashionable
aowers that are worn and have been
used for q number Of purposes, among
them being table decorations at we'd
dings, funerals. as bouquets and bouton-
nieres, and when initiated as decorations
Tor hats and bonnets. One of their
latest uses and one that IS just now very
popular il as B candy that is eaten after
dinner 1T dessert. The violets and rose
lsaves are candicd and. prepared SO
nicely that when lying on q dish they
look perfectly natural, The violet is
taken just Is II grows and ID encased Id
i tlne coating Of sugar that preserves the
violet and at the same time makes i candy
u Il. The flower Is just what one would
expect these To b. iii aviolet, and tie
sugar makes IT . little rich. The French
40 the chief manufacturers Of these
luxuriss ana guard their secret very well.
Those that ore sold III this city are
mostly imported and consequently are
yery expensive, selling 1t IS. 30 . pound.
They are very light II weight and it
fakes ! great many 70 weigh ! pound.
The roses bro net prepared Id quito the
sauna way. They are Hret ,fnIeaa ~
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Esdui1maNr Diet,

A recent writer on Vegctarianism in
England maintains thato the diet Of the
Esquimaux is one of necessity rather
than choice. These people, living the
entire year in the frigid zone, are forced
to procure their food more from the
animal than the vegetable kingdom but
their taste for vegetable food is always
gratiied whenever opportunity exists.
''They eat as much as eight pounds Of
flesh meat at a meal" says DR.. Ray,
''and they usually die of scrofula
between t~hirty-ive and f~orty-years of
age" In the spring they will eat
scurvy grass, wild turnips, wild
oats, etc., while in autumn
they find a few scattering blackberries.
blueberries, cranberries, etc. 1t is stated
that women who gather these fruits, and
eat more of them than the men, live
much longer in consequence --PAreaolo-
giMl Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

The Spanish congress recently voted a
bill authorizing an expenditure of about
$45, 600, 900 on naval ornaments to be
distributed over nine years, besides
$S, 900, 600 for the annual expenses of
the navy. 1t is proposed to build one
ironclad, four cruisers, four frst-ciass
torpedo boats, and nine other warlike
vessels. There are few indications in
Europe az this moment pointing toward
an early arrival of the millennium.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Prison Statistics.

During the late <unpleasantness 49,,
sos Union soldiers were captured by the
ggraycoats, and the Northerners captured
Az, l69 Confederates. The number of
Union troops who died while prisoners
was 90, 725, / ittle more than one in
seven Of al captured. The number of
Canfederates Who died WhiIa prisoners
Wfs q, ~, 81 gaYgy nearly pna ID aights
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Remedy for a FeIon.

MANY persons arc liable to extreme
suffering from fe!ons on the finger, The
following prescription is recommended
as a sure cure for the distressing all
mcnt: "Take common rock salt, such
as is used in sailing down pork or beef,
dry it in an oven, then pound it fine and
mix with spirits of turpcntine in equal
parts. Put it on a rag and wrap around
the part affected, and as it gets dry put
on more, and in t~wenty-four hours you
are cured; the fe!on is dead" It will
do no harm to try it.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

The Atlanta Constitution is authority
for the statement that a man who re-
Gently died in Alabama had previously
lived nearly five years without askull.
An accident had necessitated the removal
Of the top Of his head down to his eyes.
An artificial covering was made for what
brains remained and in a few weeks
o thin film formed over them. He re-
tanned all his faculties. The c%onyolu-
tons and throbbings of the injured
organ could be plainly seen. Alabama
seems at last to have aroused herself to
contest with Georgia the honor of being
o wonder producing state.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

The colored normal and industrial
school at Tuskegee, Alabama, which was
opened in 1881 with thirty students and
n teacher, now has 275 students and
twenty teachers. In connection with the
institution is a saw-mIll, which is a
PURGE of profit, and a brick-yard, which
last year turned out 800, 900 bricks.
Two Boston ladies have just made q gift
of $4,000 to the school, and thus educa-
ton among the negroes fourishes.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

A New York oil merchant has for the
past year furnished a line of steamships
with oil, to be used to lessen the danger
GUS effects of heavy seas. Ten vessels,
including all the cattle steamers, have
been provided with the necessary APP
pllances to use oil when occasion re-
quires. The method adopted of using
oil is by means of puuctured canvas bags
filled with oakum.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
The Other Kind.

When u began to rain yesterday 4 boy
rushed out of i Michigan avenue shoe
store and began to hurry the display
goods inside. He vas ct this work
when 4 pedestrian anne up and said:
guess iii look further. / was a.
ter 4 pair Of rubber boots. and / see you
ara taking yeurs ii put Of the rain. I
Waut sonnesaiHa "a stand TIE II
IsrA
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

A company for the mining Of mica,
in the northern part Of New York, has
been incorporated at Utica. The mines
are located north of the Moose river,
near the Lewis county line, It is said
that the streams ia that region are paved
Rifa l w a~llatenIaagg aspalss IF the mineral,
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

a crazy sculptor tried to assassinate o
French Deputy in the lobby Of the
Chamber recently. It is commonly be-
Heved that the life Of the French legis-
lator is exciting enough without such
little episodes.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
At the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.

Attic Royal Irish Academy, Dublin,
DR.. sigcvson has given an able and
S3terfIeng lecture on microscopic APP
pears ices obtained from special atmos-
pheres, in which, as was to be expected,
be explained that in examining the
cir Of factories and workshops, he found
the atmosphere Of each charged with
particles according to the nature of the
trade carried on. In al iron factory he
found carbon, ash and iron, the iron
being In the form of trans-lucid hollow
balls one-two-thousandth Of an inch
diameter. Iuthe air of q shirt factory,
flament Of linen and cotton and minute
eggs were floating; and in places where
grain Is thEaskgd and converted, the
floating duG is ibrous starchy, mingled
with vegetable spores; but according to
Dr. Sip fson, the dust Of a ~scutching-
inil 5more hurtful than any, and as
gains should bs taken to get rid Of
That Of the grinding-mill of Sheffield.
Ia the dir Of type-fonndries and print
Offices, antlmony exists; stables, show
hair and other animal matter; and the
air Of dissecting rooms is described as
particularly horrible. All this is very
disagreeabie to think Of; but while it
manifests that we should be careful to
pu liz the air we breath, ~ teaches also
that nature has given us y respiratory
apparatus endowed with a large amount
Of self-protccting function.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
DISCIPLINE:

The government of this school is strict but parental;
no hard tasks or restrictions are imposed, but over
student must comply with the rules, and must prepare
up to he measure Of her ability, the lessons assigned.
train the m1nd to habits of correct thinkin ing and thor.
o1gh investi cation. No student will be allowed to en-
ter higher classes without thorough preparation. Pa
rents and guardians may rest assured that the manners
he alt and morals of the children and wards shall 70.
ceive due attention.
No deduction for absence. unless in case OF protract;
easy Of access. The boarding department is under tbs
Immediate charge OF Mrs. Hayes. Boarders will pro-
vide themselves with blankets and towels. For par.
ticulars address
in,v ss'3anoy 27'T9, Princip pal,
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
0PEL0usAS FEMALE INSTITUTE.

Opetousas 81. Landry Parish. La.
VTyHiS Institution will resume duties Monday. Sep
tembe 6th. 1884. under the immediate supervision
Of Mrs: NJ. NJ. Hayes and Mrs. M. A. Davis. with
competent assistants. The scholastic year consists Of
forty weeks.
TERMS OF TUITION:
Preparatory Department. per month.....""....Sa.a
Academic .-...."..... 3N
Boarding. including washing. light and fu Ell ..... .16.ge
Embroidery. wax flowers. painting, drawi ng,
each, ....-.-... ..-...iu,W
Incidental fee. Lee
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-15
THE CONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS.


CHICAGO, July lj-Central Music hall
was crowded Thursday at the session of the
National Educational associa ton. After
prayer and vocal music q communication was
read from Gen. John A Logan past G. A
R., em5ody ing a resolution that, as the pub
lie school is established chiefly in the interest
of national preservation and prosperity, its
teachers should in all their teachings empha-
size and magnify whatever tends to make our
youth appreciate the privileges and intelli-
gently discharge the duties of American citi-
zenship. The resolution was received with
applause and referred
A message from the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
recommending the teachers TO train children
to habits of humanity and kindness towards
dumb beasts was enthusiastically indOrsed
by the convention.
The report of the committee on the nomi-
nation of officers was received 1t named as
president, Aaron Cove, Of Colorado; secreta-
nv, James H. Garfield, Of Kansas: treasurer,
Edwin c. Hewett, of Illinois: first vice presi-
dent, William E Sheldon. of Massachusetts
Touching and appropriate references were
made by the committee on neurology to the
decease of the late Marx Hopkins and
others
An essay upon "Tho Relation of the Uni
versity, College and Higher chronological
Schools to the Public System of Instruc-
ton" was read by Dr. James 3. Angel,
president of Michigan University, and an es-
say upon The Christian College, was read
by Rev. j. W. Strong, president of Carleton
college, Minnesota. After the reading of the
essays, a general discussion followed. Both
papers were able and were listened to with
great interest.
In the evening the convention discussed
the means and ends of culture to be provided
for the American people beyond the ordinary
school neriod
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-15

TIFFIN Ohio, July l5.-Suit was com
menced in the common pleas court
Monday morning by John K Rohn, adj
ministrator of the estate of A. B. Ice
one of the victims of the Baltimore &
Ohio horror at Republic, Jan. 4, through hi:
attorneys, Seney & Schaufelberger, for SO
900 damages Ice was en- route to his home
at Pe1fiei, Ill, after Spending the holiday:
with friends in the east. He was describe
by the agent who sold him the ticket, lltnitei
TO the fatal train. and Lv Harry c. Forester
Chicago passenger on the train. who recoi
lectel him by the fact that Ice carried hot
tie and had askel him to take drink 1c.
was also Identified by his watch and revolver
both of which were found in the debris Of tn
wreck, and are now il the possession of Cor
oner Lepper
He left wife and three children, and
fourth vet unborn. in destitute circumstance
and as the Company absolutely refused Il
settle with her or the administrator Of be-
| husbands estate, Seuey & Schaufelberge
commenced this sniff This is believed 10 Ia
| the only case arising ont of the holocau5
which the company has no. already settled
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-15

THE Connecticut republicans, in their
sta:e convention last fell. adopted plat
form which contained resolution de
ciaring that ''our existing local-opti0n
laws are in accord with the states an
cent theories of locsl government, and
the republican party is ready, as it always
has been, for the enactment Of such laws,
len ling to eradicate the evils If iDtLm-
pefauce, as m"y be demanded by public
sentiment" Upon that platform they
siected legislature republican by Il to
10 il the senate, and by l3S to III in the
house When the legislature met. pub
lie sentiment in Connecticut, as every
where else, demanded the enactment of
a high license law. as the measure which
most tended to eradicate the evils Of in
Temperance Months passed without
any action. At last halfway sort of
high-liceDse bill was passed in the
lower branch The end Of the
session approached. and the action
of the senate was awaited with
great interest. The bill was ia
ken mp on the evening before the day OF
final adjournment, and indefinitely post
poned, with but a single dissenting vote.
The significance Of this action appears
when we read in local paper An day
Wednesday, a considerable number If
saloon men were in the senate, on the
floor and IN The galleries, an6IOusly
awaiting the debate on the high license
bill. We ale further told that the re-
publican senators were very well satisfied
to be 50 easily lid Of troublesome mat
ter" But the question is whether they
really are rid of l., and that question will
not he answered until the votes are
counted at the next election IN November
of next year In 1884 the prohibtionlsts
polled 2,4S9 votes, and in 1886. despite
the distinct pledge of the republican
party to enact further legislation against
intemperance, $3.50 votes. With this
pledge thus shamelessly broken, how
large will the prohibition vote be in 1888?
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-15

CONGRESSMAN WILKES, of Ohio, who
has inst returned to Washington from a
visit to his district and state. says Allen
G. Thurman will he nominated for gov
ernoF hy acclsmatlon al the democratic
convention. Mr. wilkins is thus quoted
by newspaper correspondent
Almost every county convention in
the slal has instructed It's delegates foI
Judge Thurman We believe this pre-
pnnderaHcr of sentiment in The old gen
tleman's favor will have its Influence III
causing him 10 accept The nomination.
As to his election. ! heli.ye his chances
VII he fair Judge Thurman is popular
with what are termed the lahoring classes
out IN our state He was one of the
hoard % arbitration in the recent strikes
in the Hooking valley His conser7a-
tive course as member OF that board
added greatly to his strength with the
striking element II we can carry the
state at Gll we can do it with Thurman.
The republicans must work hard 10 de
feat him More than this, they must put
up their best man They cannot run
Gov Foraker against him with any hope
Of success John Sherman is the only
republican who can beat him, and there
is no certainty Of that If the democrats
nominate Judge Thurman then Senator
Sherman must resign his seat and come
10 the front and defeat him, if he can.